GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 June 1926, Page 5

GERMANY

REPUBLICAN DEMONSTRATION

AGAINST THE fiX-KAISER

(By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) iy Sun Cable.)

BERLIN, June 14. A gathering of 150,000 Republicans angrily demonstrated outside the ex-Kai-ser's palace in favour of tine referendum, carrying a banner inscribed, "Sunday will be the reckoning.day with the deserter at Down." Another, constructed of worthless bank notes, was inscribed, "Give these millions to William." The crowd hissed when a speaker, pointing to the palace, shouted, "There lived the .man who plunged Worm any into ruin," and cheered a poster showing the Ilohunzollerns suspended to gallows. The police drove off Monarchists attacking the platform on which was a coffin with an effigy of the ex-Kaiser in court robes and crown.

CLAIM BY EX-KAISER

TO SOUTH- AFRICAN PROPERTY CAPETOWN, June 14.' An action of international importance will be shortly heard in the Windhoek High Court, in tho South-West Protectorate. The ex-Kaiser is. petitioning for a declaration that the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles do not apply to the property of the Hohenzollern family, in mandated territory, and for an interdict against the administrator restraining him from dealing with the family's property, and for an order to file Registrar of Deeds to restore the name of the roval family as the owner thereof.